As I live and breathe I adore Shin, Jay, and everything about Shutline.
But what the actual fuck is wrong with Shin. If you kill my sibling I’m not wasting the energy it takes to spit on you, let alone reminisce- unload the fucking clip into his face, you dumbass!
Author is clearly aiming to force tension to push the relationship to a climax, but it doesn’t make me any less irritated.
I’m the worst with these kinds of character interactions. Whether as a filler chapter or otherwise, reading this feels like I’m third wheeling the world’s most awkward, stilted date between a high school friend and the older college kid next door.
Like, there’s no chemistry so please give me stimulating dialogue to distract from that I beg. I’ve felt less discomfort in actual strip clubs.
Minyeong is not dead, Cheol is out of his mind on hallucinogens so he’s an unreliable narrator. What I would LIKE to think is about to happen since we’re about to hit a finale and I love tragedy/irony/comeuppance- Cheol is so distraught that he kills himself.
This is obviously not the outcome Minyeong was going for and would just feel SO solid following the forboding/foreshadowing “commit sins and reap the consequences” line we were just served. It would also fit with the whole dark overarching theme of playing a losing game.
Because as so many have learned, apologies and revelations have a tendency to arrive far too late.
He’s acting like he knows the backstory behind the Happy trauma so then why is he saying he’s going to call Jun and that he misses him?? Unless that’s a mistranslation. Because Jun is literally the root of all his problems and a total POS from all the subtext they’ve given us.
You don’t trust the King AT ALL and have clearly seen how he’s treating you like a slab of meat/hostage, repeatedly emphasizing that you have no power…but sure.
Tell him you have a dude you care about outside so that he can use that as a bargaining chip against you. He already has your family. Dumbass, ISTFG.
Brother is literally dying on his own. What’s the point in wasting the Tiger Lords time/resources to get an emergency elixir to THEN make a half assed attempt on Ohwi’s life?
You could’ve just left him for the soldiers and escaped into the scroll on your own if you wanted to take revenge. Pointless shit.
I need to bill them for couples therapy after setting unrealistic expectations
It’s the same old story of people foisting human morals/ expectations on inhuman characters and being shocked when they proceed to not GAF.
I can extend grace for the idea of his human upbringing subliminally impacting him, therein instilling some humanity via osmosis? But that’s with the premise of an environment where little baby leatherface isn’t constantly exposed to ABUSE, BETRAYAL, DEVASTATION and SLAUGHTER… yeah. Probably feeds right into his apathy.
Also, objectively, dragons horde their treasures/obsessions and can withstand brutal climates. So 1) Abel being his treasure- no shit- aligns with his beast nature and 2) he knows he’ll survive whatever devastation he brings and either keep Abel alive or (worst case) wait for another reincarnation down the line.
*Special novel spoiler 3) Abel finds him mid fire and is just like “go for it”- which I love since he’s been consistent since the beginning in supporting Karas in both human and beast nature. He is the only one that sees through to Kara’s’ core and doesn’t waver in his belief.
Obvi he does say he’d prefer him NOT to burn the world down, because there’s people he cares about and things he wants to do with Karas, but he doesn’t beg or force it just waits until inevitably Karas himself decides that getting to sleep in the same bed when there’s no empty rooms in a crowded inn outweighs global destruction.*
But goddamn, homeboy is not serving potato! Everyone is lucky he’s so good-natured that it didn’t give him some wild complex.
The names my family used to call my sister and I for “shits and giggles” had a lasting impact; I’m always reminded of it during these moments.
Someone tell the translators that Britney, Pink and Beyonce have done this battle before, this is just embarrassing.
Is why it’s important to beat the shit out of your siblings growing up. Keeps them from getting out of pocket.
If Teach is the reason he died the first time (hence the stitches, maybe some ill fated lovers shit IF WE EVER GET TO THE MYTHOLOGY) and now he can’t die without resurrecting, which is why he’s so blasé about alter-ego-sleep-Teach being a homicidal maniac (and views awake-amnesia-Teach like the huge dumbass pet rock he is.)
Nice to see we all took a break from therapy to enjoy these chapters. Can’t wait to discover what our Brother is planning for this round of psychological warfare.
I still stand by Nox going way too weak on Liam, man did not do shit to make amends for his treatment of him.
I don’t want anyone waving their Yu-Gi-Oh! decks of other MLs that are worse at me either; I’m not here to play comparison battles with you. I’m only speaking on his garbage behavior wrapped in a recyclable bow.
How are you going to be fucking around on him and then acting like he needs to be chaste, then be the one to coerce him into sexual situations he isn’t initially comfortable with, and THEN imply he’s easy later on WHILE YOUVE NEVER STOPPED STREET ACTIVITIES.
Now that he’s desirable by literally every man in his life and he has confidence back, you want to switch up and cuff him? Just because he’s a push over there doesn’t have to be accountability? If you did all of this but just didn’t SMILE and act friendly, it would change the whole connotation of it. Pleeease. I do not like this man. (Side note, sooo creative of author to attribute his feelings for Nox to the BOND. Lmao. That was his big revelation of why he wanted to be together, not because he ACTUALLY cared about him but the BOND made him. Probably because they’ve known each other 5 seconds.)
Plus, he’s literally bonded to his adopted brother, there was no reason for the author to keep him around after the pheromone assistance and filler kinky scenes. Sigh. Should’ve given us his brother who they threw in for ONE useless scene of attempted “look it’s so hard for fuckboys” exposition.
Okay, rant over.
This is on Webt**n, one of my fave apps like T^p^s to read on. You can catch up there, if you can’t stand being on hold like me (also to support the absolute power house that brings us Mori and fam ♡ )
ALSO (spoiler)
Even though it’s ending I’d like to believe that with the theme of recent chapters the author will continue with side stories having mini adventures for the crew around adopting out the other babies
Dude is probably sick and author is trying to express it more blatantly. He’s clearly scratching at a rash on his neck and not taking customers despite their destitute conditions. Use your imagination a little ya’ll, come on.
But maaaan, they really sent this stupid motherfucker into a wolf den just because he fucks the boss. Like that’s a combat skill.
He’s even fully aware he did nothing to sell it (despite the fact being called out is ALWAYS a possibility to be prepared for) and basically served EVERYONE’S asses up. Even if Guwon willingly ignores it because he’s attached to him, that’s a courtesy limited to HIM.
I could think of so many things on the spot in response to someone asking if I want them dead and he didn’t even try aaaaaah author if you’re going to give him a personality plot twist let it be soon.
I wonder if the author has ever encountered anyone similar to this character they’re trying to idealize, because they fumbled the transition from “high functioning childhood trauma survivor” to “triggered crash out” before I took my morning meds.
If he was the type of person who has the diagnostic criteria to present this way, he would have already been showcasing several more concerning signs prior to this point. But I remind you, he’s holding down a successful career, social life and is regulating his hygiene and financials well (from what we can tell.)
Author is trying to suddenly dump incredibly deep lore on us to add context to his morally questionable actions and explain how he’s suddenly gone Swim Fan with bizarrely unpredictable behavior. I’m just already not a fan of the direction they seem to have pinned for this season. Hoping they have a bigger picture in mind, because this had a lot of potential.
Why is Juwon the only motherfucker with flat ass hair??
His hat comes off and it’s like I can FEEL the souls of 2000s hairstylists reaching for their combs and Bump-Its.